Elizabeth D. Samet

Elizabeth D. Samet is the author of several books, including Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness.

The Bottom of the Ninth

In baseball and in life, there is a cost to our pursuit of an error-free existence

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Thursday March 26, 2026

Frontline Oracle

A new biography of America’s most beloved grunt reporter

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Thursday June 1, 2023

The Center Cannot Hold

A kaleidoscopic journey through a divided country

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Wednesday March 1, 2023

The Art of Losing

The end of the war in Afghanistan shows the danger of our commitment to perpetual optimism

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday November 30, 2021

America’s Black Soldiers

The long history behind the Army’s Jim Crow forts

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Saturday July 11, 2020

The Knock on Grant

Why toppling his bust in Golden Gate Park was a strange way to celebrate Juneteenth

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Saturday June 27, 2020

A Lifelong Habit of Being

Exploring a fundamentally ambiguous attribute

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday June 2, 2020
New Grant statue unveiling at West Point

Moral Courage and the Civil War

Monuments ask us to look at the past, but how they do it exposes crucial aspects of the present and has an inescapable effect on the future

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Dishonorable Behavior

The scourge of military sexual assault and the warrior’s masculine code

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Monday June 5, 2017

The Bottom of the Ninth

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Thursday March 26, 2026

Frontline Oracle

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Thursday June 1, 2023

The Center Cannot Hold

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Wednesday March 1, 2023

The Art of Losing

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday November 30, 2021

America’s Black Soldiers

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Saturday July 11, 2020

The Knock on Grant

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Saturday June 27, 2020

A Lifelong Habit of Being

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday June 2, 2020
New Grant statue unveiling at West Point

Moral Courage and the Civil War

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Tuesday September 3, 2019

Dishonorable Behavior

By Elizabeth D. Samet | Monday June 5, 2017

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